This is shaping up to be the World Cup of comebacks, and Sunday's first match between Switzerland and Ecuador proved to be the tournament's best so far.

Ecuador took a 1-0 lead in the 22nd minute thanks to Enner Valencia's goal off a set piece pass from Walter Ayovi and held it until Admir Mehmedi equalized for the Swiss very early in the second half. This match was headed for a draw until after the 90-minutes mark when things got wild in stoppage time.

Enter the unsung hero of the match, midfielder Valon Behrami, a former refugee from Kosovo who became a Swiss citizen and a top footballer in his new land.

Behrami, hustling on defense, made a fine tackle on the ball to keep Ecuador's Michael Arroyo from settling it and taking what would have been an open shot. Behrami then dribbled up the field, took a hit and tumbled for what should have been a foul on Ecuador, then somehow regained his balance and made the first pass on what turned out to be the winning goal for Haris Seferovic.

See what Behrami started and Seferovic finished:

Benzema, France blast Honduras

France looked strong against Honduras from the get-go in a 3-0 win, a physical match that saw some rough play on the part of both sides. It was pretty much all Los Catrachos could do to keep Les Bleus from staying on the offensive side of the pitch, especially in the first half when Honduras spent far too much time defending.

In fact, two France shots hit the cross bar of the goal in the first half, and all of Honduras' tactics caught up to it in the last couple of minutes. Wilson Palacios got a second yellow card for basically ramming into the back of Paul Pogba in the box and was ejected.

Karim Benzema converted the resulting penalty kick and France never looked back in a resounding victory. This after one of the best parts of watching any World Cup match, the playing and singing of the national anthems, did not take place for some reason.

Benzema also scored in the 72nd minute and almost finished the day in Porto Alegre with a hat trick.

Here's that 72nd-minute goal:

Honduras had to play the entire second half with 10 men and were finished, especially after Benzema's shot in the 48th minute crossed the goal line when goalkeeper Noel Valladares mishandled the ball. Valladares was given an own-goal after goal-line technology was used to confirm the ruling.

This game had to be sweet redemption for Benzema, who was left off the World Cup roster in 2010, a World Cup the French would rather forget given all of the team's drama in South Africa. And for France, it was assured of a much better fate than it suffered in 2010.

Argentina feeds off Messi and Maracana madness

The fastest own-goal in the history of the World Cup benefited Argentina, which did enough to defeat Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-1 in front of a decidedly pro-Argentine crowd at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Maracana Stadium in the nightcap of Sunday's play.

Bosnia got past the shock of the third-minute goal and played well in the first half, but the man 74,000-plus came to see, Argentina's Lionel Messi, put on a show with this 65th-minute goal:

(Watch Messi's run leading up to the goal. This is why he is the No. 1 player to watch in the World Cup.)

It sent the pro-Argentina crowd into a singing frenzy, and Messi continued to be a difficult mark for the rest of the night.